With summer just about beginning here (well, it has just reached 20C five times this year), this is what my biggest perennial vegetable looks like today….and, yes, I’m […]
Root crops
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Rapunsel
Phyteuma spicatum is the most popular bee plant in my garden at the moment and a great edimental….a very old root vegetable in Europe, mentioned already by Gerard’s […]
Perennial vegetables
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Vert de Montmagny Ameliore
A French Dandelion cultivar, early and productive with very long leaves! Post Views: 111
Award
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The S.A.G.E. Award!
I was honoured and very proud yesterday to receive the one-off S.A.G.E: award for smelliest garden(er)? of the century!! :) Thank you Avellana Wood! 1. The Award 2. […]
Seed
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Seed library in Malvik!
Utrolig! Biblioteket her i Malvik (pop. ca 13000) ønsker å starter opp Frøbiblioteket! Om du kan hjelpe med frø ta gjerne kontakt! Amazing…I never thought I’d see […]
Article / Talks
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Article in Austrian der Presse am sonntag
An article in German about my seminar in Vienna! [gview file=”http://www.edimentals.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/stephen-barstow-in-der-presse-am-sonntag-003.pdf”] See also a translation of the on-line article here: http://tinyurl.com/y92e6lsf Post Views: 179
Garden tour / Talks
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City farm and Wolfgang Palme
One of the great things of travelling and doing these talks is all the fantastic people you meet. Wolfgang Palme (and his lovely wife Angelika who also acted […]
Food
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Slow food at last!
After 11 days of mostly fast food, it was good to get home this evening to a jungle of slow food…. Ingredients: Hablitzia, Rumex acetosa, Rumex patientia, Myrrhis […]
Talks / walks
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Walk and Talk in the Vienna Botanical Gardens
Presenting an album of pictures from BG Vienna showing edible plants I found in the collections and talked about during my walk and talk arranged by Arche Noah! […]
Beverages
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Coffee Tea
Did you know you could make coffee tea from the leaves of the coffee bush! I finally got round to trying the fresh leaves from my plant as […]
Forest Gardening / Perennial vegetables
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Hosta Superstar and Host in Vienna
The genus Hosta is just about my favourite vegetable as you can read in my book Around the World in 80 plants, productive, tasty and perfect for a […]
Garden tour / Talks
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Salzburg and the end of the Tour d’Austria
Mission accomplished! I arrived here in Austria over a week ago! 3 garden tours and two seminars on and I’m now sitting with some porcini pasta and some […]
Talks / walks
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Edimentals tour of the Botanischer Garten Universität Salzburg
My last gig in Austria was a tour in the young botanical garden in Saltzburg. Despite its youth (from 1986), it had one of the best collection of […]
walks
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St. Koloman to Trattberg
Nature pictures from today’s hike from St. Koloman at 850m up to Trattberg at some 1,400m, 6 hours return! Post Views: 110
Ecohouses / walks
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Arche Noah and the Seewardsee
Tom Strubreiter is my host up here in St. Koloman (see http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=11483). He picked me up at the station on Thursday and took me up to his mountain […]
Talks
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Auerhütte am Seewaldsee
This is the site of the talk I gave today with translation at Auerhütte, owned by Tom Strubreiter’s family! Post Views: 286
Garden tour / Talks
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Arche Noah’s Show Gardens
A few pictures from my first three days in Schiltern and Austrian Seed Savers organisation Arche Noah’s amazing show gardens. The main show gardens are in the village […]
Seed
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Misoni’s seeds
My friend Misoni Sandvik who figures in the Aster scaber and Bunias orientalis stories in my book has been back to Korea for the first time and she […]
Fruit
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Apple blossom
Astonishing how much an apple tree can produce here year after year after year with zero input! It looks like this year will be no exception. Perennials for […]
Edimentals / Salad
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58 Salad
Tonight’s salad is dedicated to all 58 year olds…for that is the number of ingredients! :) Post Views: 98
Interview
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Portland Podcast
My friend LaNita Nash in Portland, Oregon puts out the podcast “Align with plants, align with health”. She interviewed me when I was in Victoria, BC this spring. You […]
walks
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Homla walk 2nd June 2017
Another magical walk along the Homla Canyon in Malvik in the company of wwoofer of the week :) First, a parade of Ostrich Ferns along the bank of […]